How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard (psyche.co)

4 points by vgallur 5y ago ↗ HN

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Bizarre article. We don't use this to type Chinese. We just type pinyin without tones, and the IME system offers us the most likely matches. There was no need to decode anything.